Chun Inji

Chun Inji is Chun Yeowun's grandfather, a former Lord remembered as the cult's strongest figure in centuries before his unexplained disappearance.

Biography

The Twenty-Second Lord

Chun Inji passes all six Demonic Academy tests roughly seventy years before Chun Yeowun and becomes the twenty-second Lord of the cult. He expands its northern territory, conquers Jurkang Castle, and brings the Buju Sword Clan into the organization. His martial standing earns him the title South Demon Lord and a place among the five strongest warriors of his generation. (Chapters 186, 251, 314, 435)

At the height of that power, Chun Inji enters the underground treasure vault and studies the Sword Force of the Sky Demon. He spends five years attempting to reconstruct an energy flow that can operate the inherited formations. The result is incomplete, but sufficient to use part of the art. Rather than pass the flawed method to his son Chun Yujong, whom he distrusts, he teaches it to Great Guardian Marakim and orders him to complete the research. (Chapters 228–229)

Abdication and Warning

Chun Inji voluntarily leaves the lordship while still healthy and among the world's strongest combatants. He appoints Chun Yujong despite preferring a Wise Clan successor and despite the younger man's violent elimination of rival princes. The supplied chapters indicate that more happened behind the succession than Marakim knows, but do not provide a complete explanation for Inji's final choice. (Chapters 228–229, 241)

Before disappearing, he tells Marakim that a great danger may come to the cult. If he does not return in ten years, the guardian must teach Sword Demon-related clans, preserve the Sky Demon research, and prepare successors rather than wait indefinitely. The later appearance of the Blade God Six Martial Clan fits the danger Inji anticipated, turning his private instruction into a long-term contingency plan. (Chapter 229)

Infiltration with Saint Gu-jung

Inji's disappearance begins as an investigation of the Blade God faction and its pursuit of the Five Spirit Beasts. He works with Shaolin leader Saint Gu-jung and other masters to prevent the faction from acquiring the beasts' cores. Confident in their combined strength, the group pretends to submit so it can infiltrate the enemy from inside. The plan fails: the faction captures or controls them, and Inji later describes his own overconfidence as the cause of his companions' sacrifice. (Chapters 434–437)

During captivity he gets an identity slate to North Sea Ice Palace envoy Baekhyun, creating the clue that eventually draws Yeowun north. Blade God operatives find Inji close to freezing to death in the sealed dragon cave and use drugs and a worm implanted in his brain to turn him into an unwilling weapon. He resists the command bell as far as he can, but is forced to draw a sword and attack his grandson with the Sky Demon art. (Chapters 401–405, 425)

Rescue at the North Sea Ice Palace

Yeowun refuses to treat the controlled Inji as an enemy. He prevents the implanted device from destroying Inji's brain, removes and disintegrates the worm with Nano's assistance, and orders his companions to carry the unconscious former Lord out of the collapsing cave. The rescue succeeds, but prolonged control has damaged Inji's internal energy and left his memories disordered. (Chapters 425–426, 434)

When Inji wakes, he uses Shaolin's Reverse Health Preservation to stabilize himself, revealing another legacy of his friendship with Saint Gu-jung. He is astonished to learn that Yeowun—a grandson outside the six clans—has become Lord and has already secured three of the spirit-beast cores. Inji formally kneels to the current ruler before speaking as family, accepting that the cult he feared would remain trapped by clan politics has changed. (Chapters 434–438)

Counsel, Recovery, and Changbai Mountain

Although still recovering, Inji persuades Yeowun to spare Yulin survivors after their defeat. He argues that rule cannot rest on killing every enemy and quietly seeks to protect Shaolin disciples associated with his late friend. Yeowun sees the personal motive but grants the request, allowing Inji's experience as a ruler to temper the new Lord's justified distrust. (Chapter 448)

On the road to Changbai Mountain, Inji assesses the God of the East and worries that even Supreme Masters may be outclassed. When a tornado-like force threatens the cultists, he uses Air Sword to drive a qi-laden weapon into it, but the wind breaks the blade and exhausts him without piercing the defense. The failure demonstrates both his remaining Supreme Master control and how much the struggle exceeds the standard of his own generation. (Chapters 449–450)

At the summit, Inji moves to kill the mutilated Blade God before the enemy can recover, then grieves when Yeowun appears to die. His knowledge of the Five Spirit Beasts lets him recognize the resonance that revives and transforms his grandson. He remains with the party afterward, a former ruler whose warnings and failed campaign have finally produced a successor capable of confronting the danger directly. (Chapters 465–477)

Appearance and personality

Chun Inji is an elderly man with a short white beard and, after rescue, a deeply wrinkled and haggard face. The lightning used during the removal of his control device burns away his hair, eyebrows, and beard, yet observers still recognize the bearing of a former Lord. (Chapters 425, 434, 448)

He is authoritative, strategic, and willing to sacrifice his position for a threat others do not yet understand. That confidence can become overconfidence, as he admits when recalling the failed infiltration. With Yeowun he is noticeably softer than he was with his own sons: pride in his grandson coexists with a ruler's impulse to warn him about mercy, legitimacy, and the political consequences of force.

Martial arts and abilities

Supreme Master Internal Energy

Chun Inji reaches the Supreme Master level and was regarded as the cult's strongest figure in five centuries. At this level he can sense the strength of other elite martial artists, endure pressure that throws weaker warriors away, condense force qi, and operate a weapon beyond arm's reach. His military victories and sixth-test completion establish practical experience in addition to rank. (Chapters 186, 434, 449–450)

Captivity severely damages this energy foundation. Even after Yeowun and Marakim infuse internal energy, Inji remains unconscious, coughs blood on waking, and requires several days of recovery before travel. His later techniques are therefore demonstrations by a recovering Supreme Master, not proof that he has immediately returned to his historical peak. (Chapters 434, 438)

Incomplete Sword Force of the Sky Demon

Inji reconstructs an alternate energy flow for the Sword Force of the Sky Demon after five years of closed training. The flow permits incomplete use of formations that normally require the true successor's specific circulation. He passes the research to Marakim with orders to complete it, making the technique both a combat art and an emergency preservation project. (Chapter 228)

When controlled in the ice cave, Inji can still produce blue sword force and unleash twenty-four exquisitely linked sword paths against Yeowun. The art is powerful enough to identify him immediately, but its limitations are explicit: Inji never develops a flow that fully digests every formation, and the version available to him is not equivalent to Yeowun's complete inheritance. (Chapters 228, 425)

Air Sword

Air Sword lets Inji control a qi-laden sword after it leaves his hand. Against the Changbai tornado he directs the weapon into the rotating force and continues feeding it energy without physical contact. This allows attack from outside normal sword range and gives him finer control than ordinary projected sword qi. (Chapter 450)

The technique has substantial energy and concentration demands. Inji pours his strength into a single weapon but cannot penetrate the tornado; the blade breaks, he coughs blood, and his immediate attempt to shield nearby cultists is compromised by exhaustion. Air Sword is therefore a high-level control method, not an unstoppable projectile. (Chapter 450)

Reverse Health Preservation

Reverse Health Preservation, identified with Shaolin's Yin Jin Jing, circulates martial and Buddhist energy as a golden halo around Inji. After an hour of practice, his haggard complexion improves enough for conversation, and repeated use lets him move within three days despite the damage from captivity. He learned it through his association with Saint Gu-jung rather than from the Demonic Cult's standard curriculum. (Chapters 434, 438)

The art accelerates stabilization but does not erase injury. Inji initially coughs blood, suffers confused memories, and refuses Yeowun's proposed energy infusion because he considers the Shaolin method more efficient for his condition. The recovery remains measured in days and does not immediately restore full combat endurance. (Chapters 434, 438)

Strategic and Martial Analysis

Inji can identify unfamiliar combat principles from limited observation. He recognizes the purpose of the Five Spirit cores, distinguishes Air Sword and higher energy control, and evaluates why the God of the East's minimal movements exceed ordinary Supreme Master standards. This knowledge helps the party interpret threats even when Inji cannot defeat them personally. (Chapters 434–466)

His analysis is informed but fallible. He cannot explain the abnormal demon energy during the five-core resonance and openly says so rather than inventing certainty. The same boundary applies to his past: awareness of the Blade God faction's plan did not prevent the infiltration team from being captured. (Chapters 434–437, 466)

Power progression

Relationships

• Chun Yeowun: His grandson and successor, whose character he comes to admire.
• Saint Gu-jung: His old friend and partner in the infiltration of the Blade God faction.

Items

The supplied chapters do not consistently identify a named signature item for Chun Inji.